car, work, manga reccs
So once again it's been ages since my last update. Oddly enough *some* things have changed by now!
For one, I'm slowly starting to get used to my new car. I've gathered that the Dutch "Cash for Clunkers" thingy wasn't as good a deal as it was in Germany and the UK, but it did make it easier for me to decide that the time for my clunker had come. And in retrospect I reached that decision barely on time, since a part of the clunker's engine went bust soon after I'd signed the dotted line... So now I have to learn if I *really* have to drop everything and fill-'er-up the second the low-fuel light goes on, or if I can be a little more relaxed about that kind of thing. And how it handles in general, knowing how much it'll accelerate (or not), is it's reported mileage near correct or not and all kinds of stuff like that. One of the harder things to do is unlearning how to shift gears according to that eco-drive stuff, I was surprised to hear that the whole eco-driving is actively bad for any car's engine, which meant that all of a sudden I had something new to unlearn, and also something new to try to remember how-did-I-used-to-do-this-two-years-ago?
Another nice thing is that my UCS2 fixes (that I'd started on working on way back in January) finally got incorporated into the 7.0 Usoft-current-version tree. After which we only needed to fix things so a new daily build would run and all. And now I'm working on adding the same fixes, as far as they apply anyway, to the not-yet-released-soon-to-be new-Usoft-version tree. Unfortunately at least two of the resulting executables crash, apparently during shutdown, which... is interesting, anyway. I'm hoping the same bug is present in the Windows version, because debugging in Windows works *lots* better than debugging on Solaris... But oh well, will see, I hope. Am in a bit of a rush because the 7.0 stuff needs to get ported to AIX soon too, and I'm the "port-guy-for-the-daily-builds" in the team. My team also has a "port-person" for 7.0 on non-Solaris environments, and she and I get to trade tips n stuff.
Another cool thing was Erik-Berndt's birthday barbecue. Only Jurjen and I showed up, but that was okay, I thought, just to get us four talking together again. Erik-Berndt and Jurjen were my house-mates most of the times I was in college, and we all got on quite well together. In the mean time Jurjen independently got into manga and things, and he recommended a whole slew of series I'm going to have to check out sometime. A burden, I'm sure! ;-) He mentioned Pluto (amazing how many people recc this, guess this one I'll really have to give a good look-over), K-on, Sketchbook, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, and also Dragonball (without the Z)... It's going to be interesting, I guess. Not that I mind...
For one, I'm slowly starting to get used to my new car. I've gathered that the Dutch "Cash for Clunkers" thingy wasn't as good a deal as it was in Germany and the UK, but it did make it easier for me to decide that the time for my clunker had come. And in retrospect I reached that decision barely on time, since a part of the clunker's engine went bust soon after I'd signed the dotted line... So now I have to learn if I *really* have to drop everything and fill-'er-up the second the low-fuel light goes on, or if I can be a little more relaxed about that kind of thing. And how it handles in general, knowing how much it'll accelerate (or not), is it's reported mileage near correct or not and all kinds of stuff like that. One of the harder things to do is unlearning how to shift gears according to that eco-drive stuff, I was surprised to hear that the whole eco-driving is actively bad for any car's engine, which meant that all of a sudden I had something new to unlearn, and also something new to try to remember how-did-I-used-to-do-this-two-years-ago?
Another nice thing is that my UCS2 fixes (that I'd started on working on way back in January) finally got incorporated into the 7.0 Usoft-current-version tree. After which we only needed to fix things so a new daily build would run and all. And now I'm working on adding the same fixes, as far as they apply anyway, to the not-yet-released-soon-to-be new-Usoft-version tree. Unfortunately at least two of the resulting executables crash, apparently during shutdown, which... is interesting, anyway. I'm hoping the same bug is present in the Windows version, because debugging in Windows works *lots* better than debugging on Solaris... But oh well, will see, I hope. Am in a bit of a rush because the 7.0 stuff needs to get ported to AIX soon too, and I'm the "port-guy-for-the-daily-builds" in the team. My team also has a "port-person" for 7.0 on non-Solaris environments, and she and I get to trade tips n stuff.
Another cool thing was Erik-Berndt's birthday barbecue. Only Jurjen and I showed up, but that was okay, I thought, just to get us four talking together again. Erik-Berndt and Jurjen were my house-mates most of the times I was in college, and we all got on quite well together. In the mean time Jurjen independently got into manga and things, and he recommended a whole slew of series I'm going to have to check out sometime. A burden, I'm sure! ;-) He mentioned Pluto (amazing how many people recc this, guess this one I'll really have to give a good look-over), K-on, Sketchbook, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, and also Dragonball (without the Z)... It's going to be interesting, I guess. Not that I mind...